[Debconf-devel] Bug#629405: Bug#629405: please remove redundant libqtgui4-perl from Build-Depends

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On šeštadienis 11 Birželis 2011 19:28:20 Joey Hess wrote:
> Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > debconf build-depends on libqtgui4-perl but it builds fine without this
> > dependency. Apparently, libqtgui4-perl is only useful at runtime (and
> > debconf binary package suggests it already). Could you remove this
> > package from Build-Depends?
> 
> libqtgui4-perl is necessary to build Ui_DebconfWizard.pm from the
> WizardUi.ui file. That it fails to FTBFS, and generates an empty
> Ui_DebconfWizard.pm is probably unintentional, a hack discards the
> failure from puic4 not running. If debconf is built without
> libqtgui4-perl it will not have a functional kde frontend.

Oh, I see. But read below.

> > I'm reporting this as important because qt4-perl (source package for
> > libqtgui4-perl) might have to go away from testing (or archive)
> > temporarily or permanently. When this happens, this trivial bug will
> > become RC so it's better to avoid that in advance...
> 
> Wouldn't it also be a problem that debconf would again not have a kde
> frontend?

We have another frontend which itself is a client of the debconf passthrough 
frontend. It is implemented natively in C++ and would be free of qt4-perl 
bindings. I will try to implement a Frontend/Kde.pm wrapper for it. Would you 
accept it? Once I'm done, I will report another bug.

It does not look like qt4-perl and qt/kde smoke bindings have a bright future 
in Debian at this point as nobody wants to package a standalone version. Maybe 
somebody interested will reintroduce them later.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org>
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